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"For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, And the little house into bits.

You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'

For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Yisra'el," Says the LORD, the God Tzva'ot,; "And they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamat to the brook of the `Aravah."

It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Ya`akov stand? For he is small."

Thus the Lord GOD showed me and, behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.

Then I said, "Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Ya`akov stand? For he is small."

For `Amos says, 'Yarov`am will die by the sword, and Yisra'el shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"

but don't prophesy again any more at Beit-El; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"

That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

Won't the land tremble for this, And everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; And it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Mitzrayim.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, And baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, And the end of it like a bitter day.

Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine in the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD.

In that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint for thirst.

Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

For the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Mitzrayim.

It is he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the eretz; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the eretz; the LORD is his name.

"For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Yisra'el among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the eretz.

For the violence done to your brother Ya`akov, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Yerushalayim, even you were like one of them.

For the day of the LORD is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.